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Pro Choice

From February, 1999 until September, 2000 Colleen McSpirit shared with the Suite101 community her thoughts and concerns about the Pro-Choice movement in her "Pro-Choice" topic.

Despite the controversy surrounding the right-to-life and right-to-choose issues, Colleen never feared to give her readers not just her personal opinion, but also an analytical look at the current events of the time, that had an effect on a woman's right to choose.

In this anthology I have compiled Colleen's most "newsworthy" articles, from the death of the Roe vs. Wade author to the 1999 drop in abortion clinic violence. You might say this is all "yesterday's news", but I find Colleen's presentation thorough and thought-provoking. I think that understanding the events that led to the present-day debate on the abortion issue is vital to making an informed decision--not just between Pro-Life or Pro-Choice, but the decision of electing leaders and representatives who will represent your beliefs where it counts most.

So I find Colleen's Pro-Choice news as timely a read now as I did in 1999. I hope you do, too!

Dina Ely

Table of Contents

• Clinic Violence is an Ongoing Problem
• Author of Roe vs. Wade dies
• Teen Endangerment Act passed
• Abortion provider faces eviction
• New Jersey's partial-birth abortion ban overturned
• Abortion law may punish doctors
• Senate sends clear message to anti-choice groups
• Women seek early abortion drug, final FDA approval awaits
• Clinic violence down in 1999
• Supreme Court hears "partial ban abortion" case

Book Review by Sam Vaknin
Few issues are as divisive as abortion. The question of abortion is emotionally loaded and this often makes for poor, not thoroughly thought out arguments. The questions: "Is abortion immoral" and "Is abortion a murder" are often confused. The pregnancy (and the resulting fetus) are discussed in terms normally reserved to natural catastrophes (force majeure). At times, the embryo is compared to cancer, a thief, or an invader: after all, they are both growths, clusters of cells. The difference, of course, is that no one contracts cancer willingly (except, to some extent, smokers -–but, then they gamble, not contract).

This anthology of Colleen McSpirit's articles is worth its price ...More

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